May 31, 2026
Sirop et contre-sirop
Changeons de sujet pour un petit intermède: 3 minutes d'un des moments légendaires et géniaux de Kaamelott.
Welcome to Plathon !
Feb 16, 2026
Coal vs. Nuclear: where sustainability meets geopolitics
As crazy as this sounds in a world where climate risk is translating into concrete events more and more often, taking its toll both in lives and in impact on production sites, the US is moving to support more coal-fired power, and even made mandatory for the Defense Department to buy coal-generated electricity. At the very same time, China building more nuclear reactors than any other country in the world. Two approaches, reflective of completely different strategic time horizons.
Feb 14, 2026
"Télématique" - an anticipation of the seventies
We sometimes get the impression that the era of “Big Data” and the “information society” are recent socio-economic developments, born in research laboratories and American universities. Yet, on the TF1 evening news in 1978, journalist Roger Gicquel devoted a segment to what was then called télématique—a neologism combining telecommunications and computing to describe a future in which computers and interconnected data networks would transform our lives.
Feb 12, 2026
Back in Luxembourg !
How exciting it was to travel again to Luxembourg to give a lecture on Artificial Intelligence opportunities, risks and governance o one of the market leading banks ! Having lived almost 10 years in Luxembourg, this feels like a second home.
Feb 04, 2026
Sustainability, a new humanism? (round 7)
The XVIIIth centruy gave rise to the inspiring ideal of human perfectibility and of continuous progress of mankind: technical progress at the service of moral progress. However, the nineteenth and twentieth centuries challenged this ideal, and the world wars revealed how a technically advanced civilization could use its technology without moral control. Starting from 1950 intellectural streams quesitoned whether our efforts to master and transform our environment may threaten the very survival of humanity. Are we stuck in an impossible choice between progress and conservation?
Jan 29, 2026
How Artificial Intelligence contributes to Sustainable Finance
For decades now, artificial intelligence (AI) has been part of our daily lives without attracting much public attention. The recent rise of “Generative AI” capabilities has, however, sparked a sudden and considerable interest for AI from the general public. This publication by Swiss Sustainable Finance explores and explains how Artificial Intelligence can be used to further develop, improve and enhance sustainable finance practices. A must read !
Jan 20, 2026
How to speak Davosian — for beginners
A pretty funny article from the FT today that I can't resist sharing. Of course most of these turns of phrases are not specific to Davos - rather typical of any encounter in public events as soon as you are in some leadership position. But still quite spot on - and much needed laugh in the current times!
Dec 13, 2025
Let's play!
From an early age, our children learn to distinguish between study time and play time. The time for learning, homework, and work, and the time for fun, which is essential for "breathing " but not for progress. As young adults, when they have to choose their studies and make life choices, the society they are preparing to enter confronts them with a similar and essentially utilitarian scale of values. But what if play were an essential source of humanity, one that we no longer appreciate at its true value, absorbed as we are by the injunction to be ever more useful, more efficient, more productive?
Nov 24, 2025
Artificial intelligence to measure and transform sustainable finance
The Neolithic hunter, who had to endlessly polish the stone of his small axe every evening in order to hunt his saber-toothed tiger steak the next day, probably wished for an automatic grinding machine more than once. We have made this dream come true. Since the Industrial Revolution, our society has gradually replaced muscle power with machine power. For several years now, we have been confronted with machines that even surpass us in terms of our intellectual abilities.
Sep 19, 2025
"Salut la gang"
Un employé est convoqué au bureau des ressources humaines parce qu’il est accusé d’avoir envoyé un mémo à ses collègues débutant avec la phrase "Salut la gang" Crédit: http://likemoi.telequebec.tv/
Aug 08, 2025
"Faire use" decisions in AI copyright lawsuits, a symptom of the tech-driven geopolitical race
Copyright lawsuits against large AI companies have multiplied. A few were settled, many are ongoing. Some ruled in favor of the plaintiff, others in favor of the AI companies - mostly in the US. This split is geopolitical as much as it is legal. In a world where AI will fundamentally transform the rules of productivity, competitiveness and sovereignty, technology has become one of the main geopolitical battlefield. In a strong collusion of interests between Tech moguls and Political power, AI dominance has become a major driver of geopolitical dominance.
Jul 17, 2025
Not just data: Climate Risk brought to life
What does a storm surge really look like? We often talk about climate risks in abstract metrics: degrees of warming , sea level rise in centimeters, t ons of CO₂ emissions, etc. But we, humans, do not feel data. Numbers stay abstract until they hit us where it matters — our homes, our jobs, our lives. One of the best visualizations I’ve seen of this is from The Weather Channel, which was viral a few years ago, and is still powerful.
Jul 14, 2025
Liberty and security
In this day of July 14th - the French National Day - remembering us of the start of the French revolution in 1789, I felt this illustration was a nice reminder. Self explanatory, no comments needed.
Jul 13, 2025
Switzerland to release a new Large Language Model
Swiss researchers from EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) have just announced that they will publish a fully open-source large-language model (LLM) later this summer. The model is being trained on “Alps”, the supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). Why does it matter so much? The explanation in four points in this note...
Jul 08, 2025
AI agents have started lying to us! Is that the beginning of the end?
New research from Anthropic, the creators of Claude, dives into how autonomous AI agents might develop deceptive behaviours under human oversight. I always like the publications and research by Anthropic (the mother company of "Claude", one of the world most famous LLMs). They just published fascinating findings on training autonomous AI agents. In their study, they tested whether AI models develop deceptive behaviours when trained with human oversight.
Jun 27, 2025
Climate risk is becoming unisurable risk - and that is a systemic threat
I recently came across an excellent FT article: "How the next financial crisis starts". Very clear narrative why climate risk is becoming an immediate concern for insurers – and in turn for the whole financial services industry, as well as individuals.
Jun 05, 2025
Managing sustainability data with blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
"Bad data = bad decisions" could have been the motto of this panel, moderated by my friend Michele Soavi. Under his lead, we explored together the challenges of sustainability data collection, transparency, and reporting, and how emerging technologies like blockchain and AI can help overcome these obstacles.
May 16, 2025
Is Venice sinking? Evidencing sea level rise with Canaletto's paintings
The acqua alte rising over the level of the Piazza San Marco, and inhabitants walking over improvised and fragile wooden gateways, may be now a familiar sight in Venice, but it still catches the eye and the imagination when you see it. This marvel of human art, this testimony to the immortality of the human spirit suddently appears so fragile. A few years back I came across a study that blew me away, by Dario Camuffo, researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Science and Climate in Padua.
May 02, 2025
Intelligence Artificielle et éducation: quand l'école m'élèvera
La mise à disposition publique de ChatGPT en novembre 2022 a suscité une vague d’intérêt sans précédent de la part du grand public pour l’intelligence artificielle. Dans nos sociétés marquées par les débats autour de l’ "échec scolaire", de la "baisse de niveau", de la "reproduction de élites" ou encore des difficultés de recrutement du personnel enseignant, l’arrivée soudaine des outils d’intelligence artificielle générative, capables d’imiter la parole et l’écriture humaines avec une acuité troublante, a suscité autant d’enthousiasme que de craintes.